Gas leaf blowers have been banned in many cities across the US, including the City of Houston (https://hdsupplysolutions.com/s/leaf_blower_noise_regulation  for their excessive noise, toxic pollution and serious health impacts to the community and the workers who operate them.

Katy, Texas prides itself as a sustainable, livable community, yet we continue to allow the use of this dangerous equipment in our schools, public playgrounds and neighborhoods.

We are petitioning the City Council to follow other progressive cities and ban the operation of gas powered leaf blowers in our community to improve our health, our air and our quality of life.  

The regular use of gas blowers creates the following health hazards (the below statements are supported by research):

 - According to the Centers for Disease Control, leaf blowers typically produce at least 90 decibels
of noise exposure two hours of such noise causes permanent hearing loss.
 - Edmunds Automotive found a two-stroke commercial leaf-blower produces as many
hydrocarbons emissions in 30 minutes as a F-150 pick-up truck does driving 3,887 miles!
 - The Edmunds study also showed that a gas-powered leaf-blowers two-stroke engine emitted
nearly 299 times the hydrocarbons of a pickup truck and 93 times the hydrocarbons of a sedan.
 - A study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency entitled, National Emissions from Lawn
and Garden Equipment, indicates that gasoline-powered lawn and garden equipment is a
prevalent source of toxic and carcinogenic emissions.

Source: https://panethos.wordpress.com/2018/05/11/it-is-time-to-ban-gas-powered-leaf-blowers/